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Exploring an Encrypted Penguin with AES-ECB(tonybox.net)
1 points by bonyt 7y ago|0 comments
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Jobs Aren’t Being Destroyed This Fast Outside the US. Why Is That?(nytimes.com)
2 points by bonyt 7y ago|0 comments
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by bonyt 7y ago
1.829m sounds like it was converted from exactly 6 feet.
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Some Charts of Covid-19 Cases in the US(tonybox.net)
1 points by bonyt 7y ago|0 comments
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by bonyt 7y ago
I have a cron job making graphs from their data, https://tonybox.net/posts/covid19/
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by bonyt 7y ago
Business Adventures has a similar anecdote, referring to the 1962 crash: > "Other firms were less fortunate, and in a number of them confusion gained the upper hand so thoroughly that some brokers, tired of trying in
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by bonyt 7y ago
> Users now can be (and have been) banned for upvoting posts in quarantined subreddits I've heard this thrown around, but I thought it was for upvoting posts that are later removed for violating Reddit's rules - not just upvo
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by bonyt 7y ago
In Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow , there is an interesting section on intuition, and specifically the intuition of experts. It says something very similar, that "intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recogn
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by bonyt 7y ago
Site is down, but it looks like archive.org got it.[1] But the entire page is blank, because javascript. It has a fallback, which has what looks like the article in a noscript tag. Hastily converted to markdown with pandoc, and put up as a
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Going the Distance (and Beyond) to Catch Marathon Cheaters(wired.com)
1 points by bonyt 7y ago|0 comments
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by bonyt 7y ago
Fun Fact: Microsoft Excel uses double precision floating point numbers. Much of the world's numbers are run through Excel. I feel like some people have probably just ended up using the same floats themselves, just so that their boss&
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Xkcd Smearing Clock(tonybox.net)
22 points by bonyt 7y ago|12 comments
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by bonyt 7y ago
This is indeed a cool tool! I've used it before when forensically analyzing a cell phone, and found interesting things. For example, I found that a web browser had cached the unencrypted bytes from an HTTP message. Binwalk identified
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by bonyt 7y ago
> But if you look at this video and compare the amount of stuff the camera catches AND processes, with the things you are seeing & processing, it's really hard for me to see me being better at it than a computer. I wonder if the
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by bonyt 7y ago
Is this still true in the days of VoLTE and packet switching for LTE cell networks?
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by bonyt 7y ago
That's strange that my site is blocked, is it an overly broad rule, like "lol, if it's not .com or .gov, it's not a website that upstanding gentlemen go to"? Anyway, here's something: https://tonybox
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by bonyt 7y ago
Here's the actual declaration from PACER, which has some interesting details: https://tmp.tonyb.xyz/lamb-decl-pacer.pdf
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by bonyt 7y ago
Yep! In fact, the U.S. Supreme Court decided a landmark copyright case that involved them, although tangentially. In Feist , the Court held that entries in a phone book were not, by themselves, copyrightable. The Court acknowledged that
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by bonyt 7y ago
Here's a little experiment I made with an ESP8266 to passively search for WiFi AP's (not stations, so not helpful here): https://github.com/tonyb486/ESP8266-WiFiHunter
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by bonyt 7y ago
> And you can't pay an executive's salary in donated food or toiletries, so charities that run on practical items are great too. Except, you can probably pay an executive's salary AND buy more food and toiletries at wholes
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by bonyt 7y ago
Payment processors have a way to block prepaid cards, and I wouldn't be surprised if many organizations used these as a blunt instrument to prevent fraud. A political organization can probably even decide to treat those transactions a
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by bonyt 7y ago
A lovely ridiculous parody of "Enterprise" style Java: https://www.github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnter...
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by bonyt 7y ago
> A review of the Top 10 most populous U.S. cities indicates only half of them have obtained .gov domains, including Chicago, Dallas, Phoenix, San Antonio, and San Diego. > Yes, you read that right: houston.gov, losangeles.gov, newyo
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by bonyt 7y ago
I wonder if it works with Apple Wallet or similar? Those cards can be accessed without unlocking the phone fully.
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by bonyt 7y ago
Since it's hidden at the bottom: > illumos based server OS with ZFS, DTrace, Crossbow, SMF, Bhyve, KVM and Linux zone support.
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by bonyt 7y ago
That sounds high. In New York, at least, a notary can’t charge more than $2.00 in most circumstances.
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by bonyt 7y ago
Fallen birthday hat. Okay, but seriously, Unicode has that listed as "greater than sign," and has several similar characters. U+003E > greater-than sign U+203A › single right-pointing angle quotation mark U+
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by bonyt 7y ago
It’s not your fault, Poe’s law strikes again. People are out there with pretty extreme beliefs about the power of tax cuts, so it’s hard to satirize them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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by bonyt 7y ago
On macOS and BSD at least (I haven't checked GNU), you can make a replayable script. Record with script -r [filename] and then play back with script -p [filename] which creates a pretty cool effect.
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by bonyt 7y ago
Tabula is a helpful tool for extracting tables from PDFs, although its more for large tables of data, often spanning many pages, rather than the odd copy-and-paste. https://tabula.technology As for your specific example, you can

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